Moondrop Blessing2 + Spinfit W1 tips + balanced modular cable + Fiio BTR3K

This setup is comfortable and secure in my ears all day long & sounds great on the 2.5mm balanced port of the btr3k. I usually keep in it LDAC or APTX-Hd and its basically indistinguishable from lossless. Plenty of power and an overall pleasing sound signature thanks for the AKM dac.

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    10 months ago

    Looks great. My budget / beater setup is quite similar. Blessing 3s with coreir tips (MS size happens to be clear and blue that match visually super well), and a Qudelix 5k

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        10 months ago

        Yeah definitely. It doesn’t compete with my kilobuck IEMs in terms of slam or detail, but I wouldnt really expect it to. The best praise I can give it is I think I find it still worth listening to sometimes even with a $3k IEM within arms reach.

        I’m finding either due to burn in (not sure if this is real) or tip rolling im actually getting a pretty decent bass rumble out of it now.

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      10 months ago

      dont waste your money, the airpods is absolutely fine for audiobooks, podcasts, streaming music

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      10 months ago

      Why would you ever get a setup like this for an audiobook😭 it’s like bringing an F1 car to a go kart track

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      10 months ago

      Lol I’m listening to an audiobook right now on B2 Dusk and Fiio BTR7 with s23u. I’m at work on break but listen all day at work with this setup. Mind blowing for music coming from Buds 2 Pro and audiobooks are great due to the imaging these IEMs provide. Feels like shit is happening all around me, surround sound kinda. Hope that makes sense. Airpods and Buds are simply nowhere near this kind of sound quality.

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    10 months ago

    I have similar setup, Truthear Hexa with Spinfit W1 and 3.5 braided cable and btr3k, great sounding

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    10 months ago

    B2D with compy tips and a tripowin zonie cable and a Qudwlix 5k is my setup and I’m very happy

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    10 months ago

    What is the bluetooth part? You are driving cabled IEMs with the Fiio, correct?

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    10 months ago

    This is budget, in western world you can buy this with one month salary… idk why everyones bitching

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      10 months ago

      It’s budget for audiophile world but if most of my friends wanted this setup they would say it’s too expensive. My setup is Hifiman Sundara and it’s about the same price. But I still wouldn’t call it budget? This sounds elitist as hell just saying.

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      10 months ago

      in the uk this whole setup cost me about 1/13 of the average national salary…they just love nitpicking 😄

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    10 months ago

    I find the W1 tips on the B2 too sibilant compared to the stock tips, do you feel the same or is it totally fine for you?

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    10 months ago

    My simple setup at the moment is an iPod classic 7th gen and truthear hola. I also have a BTR5. I bought a pair of truth x crin zero red so looking forwards to that.

    I prefer overears most the time so don’t spend too much on iem.

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    10 months ago

    How can a bluetooth device be considered audiophile when bluetooth streams in lossy compression?

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    10 months ago

    LG V30-V60,

    The IEM is probably different for each person. But mine is KZ ZS7, Tin Audio T2, or TRN V90

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      10 months ago

      I used to be like you purchasing, and chasing every new $50ish Chi-Fi IEM that came out.

      Etymotic ER2 XR … $100

      You NEED to purchase COMPLY tips to go with them or you will think I’m crazy

      Detailed, vocal forward, with a touch of clean bass.

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      10 months ago

      Hakugei, and a few no name brands make modular cables. Just be sure to get regular 2 pin and not qdc connector like those on kz sets

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      10 months ago

      i forget the exact name but it was a modular cable form amazon. Comes with 3.5mm SE, 2.5mm bal and 4.4mm bal connectors